Charlie Brooker's hilarious 2016 Wipe is the show we all needed after this year

"The only man who can turn 2016 into an hour of belly laughs."

In one of this year's biggest achievements, Charlie Brooker's 2016 Wipe managed to somehow make us all laugh at the events of the last 12 months.

Brooker made light of the darkness that was to follow in the hour-long programme in a cold open that saw him on the phone: "It's going to be depressing for anyone. Not paid at all? Alright, we've gotta do it."

The show did at least get off to a happier start when Brooker reminisced over the Drummond puddle that everyone watched at the start of this year.

"The world wept an entire ocean," he lamented as a link into the death of David Bowie, and it was pretty bleak from there on out.

Fortunately, Brooker was able to wring out humour from the bleakest of situations.

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